Employment - The South
What the Team is Known For
Womble Bond Dickinson has a highly regarded employment practice that acts for national and international companies on the full spectrum of employment matters. The firm regularly assists clients with redundancies and restructuring, as well as the employment aspects of corporate and transactional matters. It is also adept at advising on a range of complex contentious matters.
Strengths
"The team at Womble Bond has always grasped both the immediate legal concepts of the issues we have faced, and the wider commercial and strategical impacts of those issues"
"The firm has a number of experts it can pull in which is helpful."
"There is a solid, highly experienced team at this firm which provides a highly responsive service which regularly exceeds expectations."
"The Womble Bond Dickinson team offers practical solutions."
"The Womble Bond Dickinson team provides comprehensive, robust and strategic advice."
Work Highlights
Womble Bond Dickinson represented Liverpool Victoria Friendly society in an unfair dismissal claim.
Notable Practitioners
Christina Tolvas-Vincent is an experienced lawyer who advises on a broad range of complex employment matters. She has a particular interest in discrimination issues as well as business and workforce reorganisations. "We continue to very much value Christina's excellent, measured and experienced advice, support and work." "Her commercial vision is very strong. She is razor sharp, provides commercially-focussed advisory support in contentious and non-contentious situations." "Christina is a joy to work with." "Christina's level of expertise on complex matters is superb. She is very commercial in her outlook."
Jon Hales focuses his practice on TUPE matters, company restructuring and outsourcing issues as well as senior executive exits. "Jon is commercially strong, understands our business, and is very responsive." "Jon provides very solid and thorough legal support with a keen eye on the commercials. He is a great support."
Dan Fawcett is a managing associate who has a diverse practice and regularly represents businesses in the Employment Tribunal. Fawcett also has noted experience in restrictive covenant and TUPE contract matters. "Dan has consistently provided a high level of service to this business." "He is always a pleasure to work with. Dan is hugely knowledgeable on his topics and very pragmatic in his approach." "Dan has good response times and commercial awareness."